New Analysis of Senate Immigration Bill

Senator Sessions Leads Panel To Discuss Bill’s Implications

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WASHINGTON (June 2006) — Will the recently passed Senate bill actually decrease illegal immigration? How many illegal aliens can be expected to legalize? How much fraud in the amnesty program can we expect in light of past legalizations? What provisions in the 750-page bill have received little media coverage?

A panel of experts led by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies will discuss these and other issues this Thursday, June 15, at 8:30 a.m. in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW. The panel will include:

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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), member, Senate Judiciary Committee, who will discuss the updated numerical impact analysis he released last week on the Senate bill and the CBO projection that the Senate bill will not decrease current levels of illegal immigration.
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Steven Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies, who will release a new report that examines the number of illegal aliens expected to receive amnesty, both legitimately and fraudulently. The report will be available on line Thursday morning at http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back606.html.
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Rosemary Jenks, Director of Government Relations, NumbersUSA, who will discuss little known provisions in the Senate bill that potentially have very large implications.
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Michael Maxwell, former Director of the Office of Security and Investigations at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, who will discuss the ability of the immigration bureaucracy to handle the enormous increase in workload mandated in the Senate bill.

For more information, contact Dr. Camarota at (202) 466-8185 or sac@cis.org

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[FYI:

1. Transcript of discussion on implications of Senate amnesty bill
2. Online debate on immigration
3. Op-ed on immigration and American Jewry
4. Backgrounder on possible size of amnesty
5. Op-ed on Pence amnesty plan
6. Op-ed on illegal-alien border deaths
7. Transcript of comments from Katz Journalism Award luncheon

-- Mark Krikorian]

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Implications of the Hagel-Martinez Amnesty Bill
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Murrow Room, National Press Club, Washington, DC
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back606transcript.html

SPEAKERS:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Steven Camarota
Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies

Rosemary Jenks
Director, Government Relations, NumbersUSA

Michael Maxwell
Former Director, The Office of Security and Investigations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security

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2.
What to Do on Immigration.
Online debate between Steven Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research, and Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Council on Foreign Relations web site, June 19-23, 2006
http://www.cfr.org/publication/10910/what_to_do_on_immigration.html

EXCERPT: Steven Camarota: ''On Ms. Jacoby's main point that we are not letting in enough people legally, she misunderstands how migration works. Legal immigration has roughly doubled in the last two decades. Yet we have more than twice as many illegals as in 1986. Most of the top illegal-alien-sending countries are also the top legal sending countries. Legal immigrants are the ones who often provide illegals with jobs and housing. The presence of an ever-larger legal immigrant population is the basis of the social network that draws in illegals.

''Finally, she still seems to be saying that it's okay to debate the issue, but in the end we must accept that foreigners will break our laws if we don't accommodate them. This kind of determinism must be rejected. We can enforce our immigration laws. The problem is that we have never tried. ''

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3.
Open Borders Threaten Jewish Clout
by Steven Steinlight
Forward, June 16, 2006
http://www.forward.com/articles/7979

EXCERPT: ''All senators who voted for the bill ignored broader ethical, social and environmental concerns, and most ominously the law of unintended consequences. Their caricature immigration reform is pure special-interest politics, denying the very idea of a national interest. Not so incidentally, it also threatens Jewish allegiances, interests and dishonors Jewish values.
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The bill also rejects Jeremiah's injunction to 'seek the welfare of the city where I have exiled you... in its prosperity you will find peace' (29:4-7). Massive immigration will eviscerate the social safety net -- betraying America's working poor and unemployed by exploiting immigrants is not tikkum olam.''

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4.
Amnesty Under Hagel-Martinez: An Estimate of How Many Will Legalize If S. 2611 Becomes Law
by Steven A. Camarota
Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2006
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back606.html

EXCERPT: ''Based on the outcomes of the last amnesty in 1986, we expect that nearly 10 million illegal aliens will receive amnesty under the Hagel-Martinez bill. That is, they will legalize and eventually apply for permanent residence and be eligible for citizenship. As in 1986, we also expect that one-fourth (2.6 million) will get amnesty fraudulently. The bill will also allow an estimated 4.5 million family members of illegal aliens to join their legalized relatives, for a total of 14.4 million beneficiaries. These estimates do not include the very large increases in future legal immigration in the bill.''

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5.
Another ''No Amnesty'' Amnesty: It was a nice try, at least.
by Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, June 13, 2006
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjM5OTE2ZWMxMmViMmRhMTEwNTA1OWY0OTEzMjg5ZWU

EXCERPT: ''The latest 'middle ground' proposal comes from Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.). Pence, who has solid conservative credentials as head of the House Republican Study Committee, offered what he billed as 'The Real Rational Middle Ground on Immigration Reform' at a Heritage Foundation speech last month.
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That brings us to the third step: the guestworker amnesty. Yes, amnesty. Or, if you prefer, legalization. Or normalization. Or regularization. Or earned adjustment. Or whatever is the euphemism du jour. The fact remains that the guestworker program in the Pence plan is explicitly designed to allow all illegal aliens to keep their jobs and domiciles in the United States without interruption.''

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6.
Long, Hot Summer: Border enforcement and the deaths of illegal immigrants
by Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, June 9, 2006
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjE1MzFlMzc0ZTI1NTQ4NmNkMzZhNTc5ODgzYzAyOTU

EXCERPT: ''But are tighter border controls really the cause? Is elite opinion right in implying that we, as a nation, are responsible for the deaths of these people by trying to control our borders? If so, then perhaps the supporters of open borders are right and American sovereignty is itself a crime.

Fortunately not.''

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7.
Transcript of comments delivered at the presentation of the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration
JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C.
June 9, 2006
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/katz2006transcript.html

SPEAKERS:

Keynote Speaker: John O'Sullivan, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, and Editor at Large, National Review

Honoree: Sara Carter, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

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